PORTRAIT – He was the voice of the proclamation of the State of Israel in 1948. From his childhood in Poland to his death in Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion devoted his life to the realization of the Zionist project.
This article is taken from Figaro History “Israel, birth of a nation”. Find in this issue a special report on the history of a political project that became reality, but challenged by permanent conflict.
Le Figaro History
David Gryn, now Ben Gurion, the man who made the Zionist dream of a Jewish state a reality, was born in Plonsk, Poland, in 1886, into a family of four sons and two half-sisters, of whom he was the youngest boy. A modest and cultivated family environment, open to new ideas of Jewish modernity, the Light, and those of the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, conveyed first by the Lovers of Zion then, more strikingly, by the Zionist movement created by Theodor Herzl in 1897.
Orphaned by his mother at the age of 11 and having ceased all religious practice after his bar mitzvah, the stocky and ailing young man founded his first Zionist organization, Ezra, at the age of 14, whose young members agreed to speak among themselves only in Hebrew. He…
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